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Clackamas Prir|r
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Film class takes on ‘Cyber Sting
Tayo Stalnaker
A&E Editor
Clackamas
Community
College has never been known for
student films, but students in the
Advanced Film Production class
are trying to change that with their
film “Cyber Sting.”
The writer of the film, Troy
Willis, wrote and starred in a film
he made last year at the college.
Willis has always been interested
in film and plans on doing more.
“When I first entered the pro
gram I knew I was interested in
film but I wasn’t sure if I wanted
to make a career out of it,” Willis
said. “But these film courses
offered at CCC have definitely
let me get a glimpse into the film
world. Now I have some idea what
I am doing, and I love doing it.”
The film is a comedy about
Alex, an avid video gamer, and his
wacky best friend Mac.
“I play a guy named Mac
whose best friend’s life revolves
around ‘Halo.’ When I find out
Alex, my best friend, is going
to be meeting a chick he met on
‘Halo,’ I become convinced the
chick on the other end is really
some old dude looking to molest
Alex. Comedy ensues,” said cast
member Zach Martinson.
The cast of “Cyber Sting” con
sists of two Clackamas Community
College students: Martinson and
Colton Ruscheinsky, who’s an
actor in the school’s theater depart
ment and plays the lead role as
Alex. The other two cast members,
Erica Ibsen and James Tombe,
aren’t students at Clackamas but
they decided to audition when
they heard about the casting call.
“I heard about the casting call
for ‘Cyber Sting.’ I read the script
and loved it,” Tombe said. “Not
as a man loves a woman, but as
a person loves a script. No, I take
that back. I did love it as a man
loves a woman, but also as a per
son loves a script.”
Tombe isn’t a newcomer to act
ing in student films. He actually
starred as the main character of a
student film made at Clackamas
last spring term.
“I had so much fun the last
time I did a student film. I come
from the William Shatter School
of Theatrical Arts, so my acting’s
not the greatest, but hey, you usu
ally get free food and it certainly
strokes the ego to be in front of a
camera,” said Tombe.
Casting went fairly well for the
crew. However, the task of finding
a mall to film a key scene in hit a
couple of road blocks.
“[Willis] wrote the script with
his own apartment in mind, so
that much was a slam dunk. But
the original script called for a
‘Hotdog on a Stick,”’ said Dan
Robertson, the film’s director.
“The Clackamas Town Center is
closed for construction, and the
Pioneer Courthouse Square loca
tion told us we could only film
for ten minutes at a time. So we
changed the script to shoot the
scene at the school.
Jeff Sorensen Clackamas
Adam J. Manley, Troy Willis and Dan Robertson work on the sound while filming “Cyber Stin
in the Clackamas Community College cafeteria in the Community Center.
drome, but it has yet to get out of
hand. Basically we just all want
this to be the best it can be.”
Crew member Kyle Steele
agrees with Gomes.
“We are awesome. The crew is
getting along great,” said Steele.
“Everyone from the class except
[Robertson] has taken American
Film and Advanced Screenwriting-
this year. Last year we all took
Introduction to Screenwriting, so
we have been in classes together
Making a film is very stressful
and crews often have problems
with each other. This has not been
the case with the crew of “Cyber
Sting.”
“Our crew has awesome chem
istry,” said crew member Elizabeth
Gomes. “We all want to be film
makers, and so we are actually
putting forth an effort to make this
film respectable. From time to
time we do get a little of the ‘too
many cooks in the kitchen’ syn-
for a year now and are
along great.”
According to Robertson, wh^
been making films for years, std
dents interested in making film II
may want to consider taking tlJ
film classes offered at Clack J
Community College.
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“The screenwriting and pfl
duction classes are great. You real
ly get a feel for how movies a
made, and there isn’t a better plfl
to get a start,” Robertson said. ■
Jewdriver: Kickin' out the ham
Derek Erikson
The Clackamas Print
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a band that I really enjoyed,
Shemps. They were all dressed
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had a police hat on and so
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their music was really awesor
and focused on racists being lai
teen rapists that will never get
of high school. After that v
able lesson, The Shemps ta
us how to properly kung fu fi
something like kicking to the ri
while chopping to the left.
‘ But that doesn’t matter beca
then Jewdriver came on.
The singer dressed in a kilt
apparatus and a Yakima. The
tarist chose an SS helmet/flo
dress combo. They rocked us v|
a huge Star of David behind th
_and their Semitic-ally charged
ics well into the night. My fav
ite song was a cover of Bl
Flag’s (boo Henry Rollins) “
Above,” only they changed it
“Mazeltov.” It was the best co
I have heard since Madonna
“American Pie.”
They also threw bagels aro
during the show. While mostl
the bagels were used properly -I
projectiles - some folks decided^
consume them. The environni
of this show was magical.
The bagels, the angry s
heads, my friend vomiting on
concrete - it all came toge
to show that the anti-racist pi|
movement is still very vocal
very drunk.
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